For a long time I've been fascinated by the many attempts to provide a smoothly adjustable brake for fly reels. I've looked at patents, magazine articles and web pages over the years, and seen many fragments of the story, but have finally got my act together actually to write up what I think I know. It's taken a while, and I've deliberately avoided any excursions into drags for casting reels like the Silex, Easicast or Rollo, and just tried to address fly reels as thoroughly as I can.

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I hope to be able to write something here at least once a month, ideally something that looks a bit more closely at some aspect of vintage tackle, maybe in a bit more depth than the captions and text in the rest of the site can support.